Dr. Alexandra Carpino, Professor of Art History and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Letters, will give her lecture “Quintessentially Etruscan: Art, Architecture + Mythology” at the Legion of Honor Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco on February 22 from 2-3pm, hosted by the Ancient Art Council.
According to Dr. Carpino: “This lecture highlights works that are quintessentially… Read more
Dr. Deborah Galante’s article “The Column by Adrian Paci” was published just this month in the journal Friction. The article explores Adrian Paci’s short film that follows a group of Chinese laborers as they sculpt a marble column destined for France. As Dr. Galante describes in her work, the “piece opens… Read more
Dr. Marco Cabrera Geserick, the Latin American Studies Program Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Humanities, was recently invited as a keynote speaker for the Napoleonic Historical Society conference this year, which was held in Mexico City at the Gran Hotel Ciudad de Mexico. The event began at the Mexico City campus of the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey (the Mexican version of MIT), where speakers were welcomed by masked students (pictured below). 
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Professor of Art History and Asian Studies, Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulacsi will be sharing her sabbatical research she conducted as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, NJ in Spring 2024 on Thursday, October 31st at 4:30pm in Liberal Arts room 136. The lecture is entitled “Sacred Waste along the Medieval Silk Roads: Buddhist, Christian, and Manichaean” and will uncover Dunhuang’s story through religious art and text from the Tang China period. This event is free and… Read more
Associate Teaching Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions, Dr. Diana Murtaugh Coleman recently published her article “Suspended in al Barzakh” in the August volume of Sargasso: A… Read more
Dr. Diana Murtaugh Coleman presented a paper and chaired a panel at the Second Graz/Puerto Rico International Conference on Human rights from an Inter-American Perspective: Camps, Carceral Imaginaries, and Critical Interventions at the University of Graz in Austria this summer. Her… Read more